Residents wait to take the elevators back to their rooms at the Hotel Beaumont after visiting the new assisted living facilities they will be relocating to in Beaumont, Wednesday. Tammy McKinley/The Enterprise

Residents wait to take the elevators back to their rooms at the Hotel Beaumont after visiting the new assisted living facilities they will be relocating to in Beaumont, Wednesday. Tammy McKinley/The Enterprise

Photo: TAMMY MCKINLEY

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The Hotel Beaumont will be closing it's doors and relocating it's retirement residents to other facilities on October 31st. Tammy McKinley/The Enterprise

The Hotel Beaumont will be closing it's doors and relocating it's retirement residents to other facilities on October 31st. Tammy McKinley/The Enterprise

Photo: TAMMY MCKINLEY

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Hotel Beaumont will close Oct. 31

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Hotel Beaumont residents have learned they have two months to find new homes.

A downward slide in occupancy combined with too many years of the senior housing facility making little or no profit caused its owners to stop its operation, said Mike Clark, president of Alpha-Barnes Real Estate Company in Dallas, a contract company that manages the building.

The senior independent and assisted living facility will close on Oct. 31.

"I have come to see this place as home," said Carolyn Mauer, 72, a resident of the former hotel.

Spending her days embroidering, socializing with friends and maybe getting her hair styled, Mauer said she's a little sad to have to leave and uncertain where she'll end up.

"But we gotta go," she said Wednesday of herself and the 50 other residents.

The hotel's closure was not a surprise to Kyle Hayes, Beaumont's city manager, who said the finances haven't been there to support it.

But it has left the city in limbo, unsure how the remainder of a $2 million loan the city made to the hotel will be repaid.